Career Pathways in Human Services

A broad career field that involves helping others to improve their quality of life throughout the life span.

• Consumer Services

• Human Services

• Career Path

• Counseling & Mental Health

Helps you find out how you might move from one job to another within a career cluster.

• Career

• Career Path

• Human Services

• Credential/

  Certification

Pathway that includes occupations related to the nurturing or teaching of infants and young children in child care centers, nursery schools, preschools, public schools, private households, and before- and after-school programs.

• Human Services Practitioner

• Early Childhood Services

• Family & Community Services

• Consumer Services

*Founder of Home Economics known as Family & Consumer Science

*First woman in history to earn Chemistry degree

*First person to link science and chemistry to nutrition

• Anna Y. Reed

• Ellen Richards

• Jane Addams

• Doris Calloway

A progression of related jobs a person has over an extended period of time.

• Career Path

• Consumer Services

• Career

• Human Services

*First American woman awarded a Noble Prize

*Opened the Hull House

*Founding mother of Social Work

• Jane Addams

• Doris Calloway

• Anna Y. Reed

• Ellen Richards

Pathway that includes occupations related to helping individuals with decisions and problems relating to finance, real estate, insurance and consumer goods.

• Early Childhood Services

• Human Services

• Consumer Services

• Career Path

*One of the Fathers of Counseling

*Expanded counseling into other areas

*Lead to career opportunities in different types of counseling

• James Lind

• E. G. Williamson

• James Cattel

• Eli Weaver

Might work in hospitals, clinics, schools, or private settings.

• Early Childhood Services

• Counseling & Mental Health

• Human Services Practitioner

• Consumer Services

*Proponent of children's education

*Author of Junior Wage Earners

*Outspoken in Prison Reform

• Anna Y. Reed

• Carl Pfeiffer

• Eli Weaver

• Doris Calloway